Where the heck are dem drivers?! I'm excited to see if there's stabilization in games.

A clumsy employee was about to upload the new driver, and accidentally deleted it instead. The development team is now scrambling to re-write completely new drivers from scratch in only a few hours and hoping that no one notices.

Guru3D often hosts drivers themselves; they may have gotten their hands on the drivers before AMD posted them for general downloading. Still, I'll wait until the drivers and the release notes get posted on AMD's website.

For some reason, I'm getting a not so good of an increase in Unigine Heaven on the new drivers when I overclock my HD 7850. I used the same setting for both sets of drivers and the same overclock settings for my card. I know this driver isn't supposed to give if any improvement, but I should be getting almost the same FPS when overclocked, shouldn't I?

This article provides information on the latest posting of AMD’s software suite, AMD Catalyst™13.1. This particular software suite updates the AMD display driver and the AMD Catalyst Control Center / AMD Vision Engine Control Center. This unified driver has been updated and is designed to provide enhanced performance and reliability. Package Content
The AMD Catalyst software suite 13.1 contains the following:

The AMD Catalyst Control Center / AMD Vision Engine Control Center requires that the Microsoft® .NET Framework SP1 be installed for Windows Vista. Without .NET SP1 installed, the AMD Catalyst Control Center / AMD Vision Engine Control Center will not launch properly and the user will see an error message.

Notes.

When installing the AMD Catalyst driver for Windows operating system, the user must be logged on as Administrator or have Administrator rights to complete the installation of the AMD Catalyst driver.

The AMD Catalyst driver requires Windows 7 Service Pack 1 to be installed.

These release notes provide information on the AMD display driver only. For information on the AMD Multimedia Center™, HydraVision, HydraVision Basic Edition, Remote Wonder™, or the Southbridge/IXP driver, please refer to their respective release notes found at : http://support.amd.com/.

AMD Eyefinity technology is designed to give gamers access to high display resolutions. As pixel count grows, the graphics “horsepower” required to drive the displays at a reasonable frame rate can increase dramatically. Depending on the game and system configuration, users may notice texture corruption and reduced frame rates when running games in multi-monitor Eyefinity modes.

Windows Driver Model (WDM) drivers are no longer bundled in the AMD Catalyst software suite. The WDM drivers install bundle can be downloaded independently through the AMD website.

AMD Product Compatibility
The AMD Catalyst driver is compatible with the following AMD products.

using AMD chipsets
The following notebooks are not compatible with this release:

Any notebook launched after this driver release

Toshiba notebooks (please contact the notebook OEM for driver support for these notebooks)

Sony VAIO notebooks (please contact the notebook OEM for driver support for these notebooks)

Panasonic notebooks (please contact the notebook OEM for driver support for these notebooks)

Compatible Operating Systems
The latest version of the AMD Catalyst software suite is designed to support the following Microsoft Windows platforms:

Windows 8 32-bit version

Windows 8 64-bit version

Windows 7 32-bit version SP1 or higher

Windows 7 64-bit version SP1 or higher

Windows Vista 32-bit version SP2 or higher

Windows Vista 64-bit version SP2 or higher

FEATURE HIGHLIGHTS OF THE AMD CATALYST 13.1:AMD Catalyst Control Center: New 3D settings and profile management user interface:
AMD Catalyst 13.1 features a newly designed 3D application settings page, designed to allow users to more easily adjust and control their 3D settings on a per application basis.Performance Highlights of AMD Catalyst 13.1 (vs. AMD Catalyst 12.10): Includes all of the performance improvements found in AMD Catalyst 12.11 Beta 11

Performance gains seen on the entire AMD Radeon HD 7000 Series:

All game were tested at high / extreme / ultra levels

Enhanced performance in Far Cry 3 (up to 25% with 8xMSAA, SSAO enabled @ 1600p, and up to 15% with 8xMSAA, HDAO enabled @1600p) (AMD Catalyst 12.11 CAP2 must also be installed)

Black screen encountered when “Alternate DVI mode” is enabled in the AMD Catalyst Control Center

Green display corruption seen in Skype webcam video

Known Issues
The following section provides a summary of open issues that may be experienced with the AMD Catalyst 13.1 software suite.Known issues under the Windows 8 Operating System.

Sleeping Dogs – game may fail to launch in certain configurations

Known issues under the Windows 7 Operating System.

Shogun 2 – Total War : flickering experienced when game is run in medium quality mode

Installing the AMD Catalyst Software Driver
For further information and general help on software driver installation, game issues, and more, visit AMD Customer Care.
Installation information can be found at: How to Install Your AMD Product.